Harlem’s Jackie Robinson Park To Be More Accessible
It will soon be easier to get into Jackie Robinson Park. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved changes that include reopening a long-closed entrance.Continue reading
Harlem’s Maysles Presents A Grey Gardens Party In Watermill
The Maysles Documentary Center, The Parrish Art Museum and Hamptons International Film Festival are proud to co-present a "site specific" conversation and excerpts from the cult classic documentary, Grey Gardens. Continue reading
729-731 St. Nicholas Avenue Sugar Hill, Harlem New York 1891
Forgotten NY qoutes Harlem's historian Michael Henry Adams, author of Harlem: Lost and Found who describes Sugar Hill's architecture (P.T. Barnum house, St. John’s Baptist Church, St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal):Continue reading
Former Yuengling Brewery In Harlem Gets Landmarks Hearing
Prohibition nearly killed it, but time could destroy it. That’s the situation for the last remaining brewing complex in Manhattan. The former D.G. Yuengling Brewery Co. complex in Harlem is under consideration for landmark designation and a public hearing was held last Thursday. Continue reading
“Iris” Iris Apfel Talks With Michael Henry Adams At Maysles In Harlem
Michael Henry Adams Saves Harlem Now (audio)
Easter Sunday April 5, 2015. Historian Michael Henry Adams stands across the street from the almost completely demolished Renaissance Ballroom and Casino at West 138th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, NY.Continue reading